Mrs. Mary J. Gore

The News and Courant

Cartersville, Georgia

September 29, 1904

Transcribed & Submitted by:
8/2006

DIED AT CASSVILLE

Mrs. Mary J. Gore Passes Away After Attack of Neuralgia of the Heart.

Mrs. Mary J. Gore died at her home at Cassville Friday, Septembeer
23rd. She was 69 years of age and had resided at Cassville for over
fifty years. Her husband, Joshua Gore, died at the same place
seventeen years ago.

Mrs. Gore was taken suddenly ill Friday afternoon, and death soon
followed. She had been in usual health and had prepared dinner Friday.

The cause of her death was neuralgia of the heart. She had been a
member of the Methodist church for fifty-five years, and was an
exemplary Christian lady, and was always ready to aid the sick and the
needy, and in this way did much for her community.

She was laid to rest Sunday at Poplar Springs, by the side of her
husband. She is survived by two children, Mrs. H. Yarbrough, of Pine
Log, and Mr. Thomas Gore, Cassville.

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THE NEWS, CARTERSVILLE.
Oct 27, 1904

In Memory of Mrs. Gore:

Mrs. Joshua Gore was bon April 28, 1836, in York District., S.C. She
was the daughter of Alexander Gunn, the pioneer peach-grower of Gordon
county who died about five years ago.

When she was six years old, her father moved to Raleigh, N. C., from
whence he moved to Cass County in 1849.

At the age of 15 years she joined the Methodist church at Cassville,
where she remained a faithful member until her death.

To this church she was peculiarly attracted; and the few older members
of that splendid galaxy of noble men and women who formed Cassville
society in antebellum days will remember her devotion to that church
and the interests of that community. To the day of her death she
always felt a peculiar pleasure in listening to those tones of
wonderful sweetness which rang out from the marvelous bell of that
church summoning to church the grandchidren of the Cassville pioneers.

On July 5, 1858 she married the late Joshua Gore who preceded her to
the better world on July 17,1887. She leaves surviving her two
children, Mrs Hiram Yarbrough, of Gordon county, and Thomas Gore, who
lives on the old homestead near Cassville. Life, with its rapid whirl
of pressing duties, is too strenuous to permit many words of memorial
even of those who fulfill best the obligations which press upon all
mortals here below.

But it is a source of unspeakable comfort to those who knew Mrs. Gore
best and loved her most to dwell upon the many solid virtues which she
possessed. She has gone to her eternal reward, the memory of her kind
heart, her gentle words and her faithful conduct in all the relations
of life will long linger as a benediction upon the lives of all whose
privilege it was to know her well.

She rests in the old Cassville cemetery where sleep the dust of so many
of her family, neighbors, and friends. Peace to her ashes.